Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [verb] and [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The School Development Plan emphasises a rational approach to decision-making by encouraging schools to focus on a limited number of priorities and devise action plans to implement and evaluate these .
2 This is part of the ideological pedagogy which the institution uses to create and maintain defensive boundaries against the outsider or those who might produce a critical analysis of its systems ; it is one major strength of the organization .
3 This small-scale study aims to describe and evaluate one initiative in this field .
4 The research aims to uncover and examine Irish women 's migration to Britain in the post-War period .
5 This research aims to interpret and evaluate some of the developments following dereglation using micro-econoic theories of imperfect competition .
6 The Shell Better Britain Campaign exists to encourage and support such activity right across the United Kingdom .
7 If and when points come forward the group meets to discuss and decide appropriate action .
8 Co-sponsored by WACC , the seminar aims to document and highlight outstanding efforts in using alternative media for development programmes in the Asia-Pacific Region .
9 Co-sponsored by WACC , the seminar aims to document and highlight outstanding efforts in using alternative media for development programmes in the Asia-Pacific Region .
10 Tradition criticism tries to pin-point and explain such changes .
11 Inside , prize tokens swirl in currents of air and each person tries to touch and keep one token within the given time .
12 Of course one is teaching new material as well , but it 's the repetition of certain subjects which can be boring , so we 're trying to combine this with material which sees it in application , and in fact for engineers their whole orientation is towards applying ideas and not just to learning how and why nature works — that 's the question that science asks , but engineering aims to apply and harness natural phenomena .
13 This paper seeks to describe and explain observed grade differences in sickness absence .
14 But fundamentally the instrumental approach fails to reconcile and explain contradictory tendencies .
15 The children 's ward at Oxford 's John Radcliffe hospital waits to welcome and help 10 year old Arma Neviskya .
16 While largely discursive , the project seeks to adapt and extend existing economic models of resource use against the background of what appears to be a changed environmentalist outlook .
17 However , it is less appreciated that in many cases the causality also appears to work in the opposite direction ; that is , the nature of the British housing system tends to form and perpetuate major demographic differentials in terms of fertility , nuptiality and marital breakdown , and mortality .
18 With further autonomization and the advent of modernism , culture becomes either inaccessible and thus no longer can function positively to construct such a stable identity , or more commonly , as argued above , modernist culture comes to undermine and destabilize bourgeois identity .
19 9.3 To that intent and save and subject as aforesaid , the receiving Party undertakes to indemnify and hold harmless the supplying Party against all or any loss , damage , liability , costs , claims and demands ( whether direct , consequential or otherwise ) arising out of or in connection with the use made by the Receiving Party of any such technical information whether the liability claim be in contract or in tort and whether the same arises directly or by way of any claim for an indemnity contribution or otherwise and irrespective of whether or not the same was in consequence of the negligence of any person .
20 It is between these two sectors that some of the sharpest demographic differentials are found , and I will argue that the unique nature of the British housing market tends to perpetuate and reinforce these differentials in terms of patterns of early marriage , high fertility and marital breakdown .
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